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Post by Rachel on Jul 6, 2005 14:54:56 GMT 1
What do we think? Hopefully it'd be more successful than the Lions
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Post by Dan F on Jul 6, 2005 14:56:07 GMT 1
Have to be under 23s remember, so it'd only be a handful of players we're aware of at the moment... scary!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2005 14:58:37 GMT 1
Yeah, I bet most of the squad are still in school! 7 years is a long time - I wonder if we will have any serious gold medal contenders in 2012?
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Post by Rachel on Jul 6, 2005 15:02:36 GMT 1
Why do they have to be under 23? What a strange rule!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2005 15:06:12 GMT 1
I don't know for sure, but 2012 is a World Cup year so how many countries are going to be interested in preparing for both competitions?
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on Jul 6, 2005 15:06:37 GMT 1
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The head of fifa said there should be a British team.... but its up to them how they organise it!!
But its sets a dangerous presendent!!!
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Post by Rachel on Jul 6, 2005 15:10:31 GMT 1
I don't know for sure, but 2012 is a World Cup year so how many countries are going to be interested in preparing for both competitions? How can that be? World Cup every 4 years, Germany in 2006... Must be Euro 2012
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Post by mattsnapper2 on Jul 6, 2005 15:14:52 GMT 1
it is • 2008 is in austria and switzerland
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2005 15:15:37 GMT 1
Shoot, I meant the Euro championships. That would obviously affect a lot of the European entries.
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Post by Dan F on Jul 6, 2005 15:33:35 GMT 1
Why? It's always the Euro Championships in the same year, both are held at 4 year intervals!
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Post by Mr T on Jul 6, 2005 15:45:52 GMT 1
i believe that the reasons why its only under 23s in the olympic football are that a. its not a fifa run competition so that is the only way they would let football enter the olympics b. there is already a very crowded football calender and the clubs would pull out their players c. the olympics is supposed to be an amateur event (even though most who play in it are professionals) but if the likes of beckham, zidane etc played it would clearly not be an amateur event.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2005 15:49:00 GMT 1
Why? It's always the Euro Championships in the same year, both are held at 4 year intervals! I had noticed, and how many European teams take the Olympics footie very seriously (ie, as seriously as the Euro Championships).
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Post by Daviimo on Jul 6, 2005 15:52:13 GMT 1
I remember at the time London was preparing to bid for the Olympics it was stated that there would be a Great Britain Football Team at the 2012 Olympics should London win the bid and we have. Its was then suggested that a team could be entered into the qualifing for the Beijing games for 2008 to prepare for 2012. So yes expect something to be sorted sooner rather than later.
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Post by Dan F on Jul 6, 2005 16:11:01 GMT 1
Why? It's always the Euro Championships in the same year, both are held at 4 year intervals! I had noticed, and how many European teams take the Olympics footie very seriously (ie, as seriously as the Euro Championships). Winners: 1900 GBR Europe 1904 CAN North Am 1906 DEN Europe 1908 GBR Europe 1912 GBR Europe 1920 BEL Europe 1924 URU South Am 1928 URU South Am 1936 ITA Europe 1948 SWE Europe 1952 HUN Europe 1956 SOV Europe 1960 YUG Europe 1964 HUN Europe 1968 HUN Europe 1972 POL Europe 1976 EGE Europe 1980 CZE Europe 1984 FRA Europe 1988 SOV Europe 1992 ESP Europe 1996 NIG Africa 2000 CAM Africa 2004 ARG South Am More Europe! Know what you're saying Craig, and certainly in recent years it's been out of Europe but I'm sure we'd have a chance...
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Post by Daviimo on Jul 6, 2005 16:18:15 GMT 1
In all honesty it has to be the longest running international football/soccer competition.
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Post by rob on Jul 6, 2005 16:22:26 GMT 1
it does set a dangerous president.
A lot of federations within Fifa and UEFA will argue that if there can be a British team for the olympics why can't there be a British team for Internationals. After all its not as if England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are individual political entities.
This could lead to a threat to the S/W/NI+E representatives that are on the various boards and thus have votes for deciding where the world cups get held and other influence in general.
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Post by Daviimo on Jul 6, 2005 16:51:19 GMT 1
They can't do that because they would taking out 4 of the oldest international FA's that are older than fifa or uefa themselves, It would contradict everything that football stands for, as where at least with the Olympics, FIFA and UEFA have no authority as such.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2005 18:15:06 GMT 1
Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.
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Post by faginy on Jul 6, 2005 18:46:50 GMT 1
we wouldn't need your sort anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2005 19:51:33 GMT 1
we wouldn't need your sort anyway. Correct. I'll be 33 by then and unlikely to come into contention as one of the overage players.
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Post by Scot on Jul 6, 2005 20:13:10 GMT 1
There`s no way the SFA will allow it. It would be like the hockey at the Olympics where England and Britain become one and the same thing. Tessa Sanderson has already been on TV saying that it was great that England got the games!
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